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Declan Jun 18, 2025

It seems #Apple is helpfully censoring your music collection now.

I have a carefully organised and saved (not always downloaded) Apple Music Library, but listening to Hypnotize by System of a Down I noticed “asshole” was being censored 🙃

The normal version of the album has been totally removed from the Apple Music catalogue, which also seems to have completely broken the iPhone's synced library so much the song titles are missing.

We're back to physical media or piracy having the best UX.

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Marius Jun 19, 2025

@True_Heresy it’s worse than that. They censor text that matches English swear words regardless of the locale/language. Example of Romanian “cum vad” (how I see) censored. Apple Music has been like that for ages. It seems that recently they started to censor locally too (see the empty screenshot).

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Declan

@paint That is so catastrophically stupid 😔 is there no change with parental/region settings, or have you just found it to be a universal censoring?
The only Romanian swearing I know would also definitely not get flagged for the spelling (in English, anyway)😅

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Marius Jun 20, 2025

@True_Heresy I noticed it ages ago when a track I was listening to had “cum” censored. I think is limited to Apple Music and it’s a data issue. Their music catalogue is censored and probably music search autocomplete is using that. Word/keyboard/suggestion/replacement does not do that in Messages/other apps (yet).